Yeah, I was incorrect, see other followup comment in this thread.
Thanks for the link to the sun. I don't get over to that paper much. It amazes me that willi-don is still kicking. He should have been put out to pasture years ago. But they still love him in Baltimore...
I live in Fredneck too. I hate to admit this, but I may be remembering a provisional ballot. I was at the wrong polling place since I had moved between elections. It sucks reaching middle age, the memory starts to slip...
I guess I still have to ask what is wrong with the old system where they collected the paper ballots and read then in the machine. I do not think that the touch screens preventing voters from incorrectly choosing invalid combinations of candidates is a good enough reason to dump the old system. If you cannot fill out a ballot, or read directions...
Of couse if you cannot remeber how you voted the last time...
Them touch screens are staring to look better... "what you say? I just push the button that the machine tells me too? Ok"
Assuming it will do what's needed, if your shop hasn't yet taken advantage of any OSS software, this might be a good candidate to get the camels' nose under the tent.
Try G4L first, then move to Perl later, you don't want to scare the rest of the shop off right away with $perl->["leet language"] = true;.
Any system the encourages the easy savings of energy is good. The only nit I have to pick about this system is why would the general public sign up for something that if you are caught in a bind and need to use power during peak periods you pay a preimium over what the general public would pay. Why risk it?
I guess if you can setup your house appliabces to work on a schedule and the savings was there (and it would have to be big) it would be worth it.
In the ideal world you want to encourage everyone to use the system, so have 1 price for single meter and peak dual-meter houses. Thoes people that conserve get all of the benifits of the savings. Those that do not want to conserve pay the same price all the time as those that do conserve.
This would cause a lot more conservation, and it would be a truer model for how energy is priced. If you do not want to be hassled with conserving, no problem you pay regular price all the time. If you make the effort to conserve you are rewarded.
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Doesn't all this technology re-invent what we already have via the "off-peak meter"?
Two point to this. First the power company controls this, thus elimnating your ability to pay more to get power when you need it.
And second, with the individual appliances doing the work you get more granular contol over your power consumption.
I think allowing your appliances to be programmed by you is a good start to the power problems we face. If this comes as a standard option in most appliances, much like the "green energy approved" appliacnes more people will start to use it. People savvy enough to take advantage of it will (in theory) save money. The Power companies will save money, and there will be less demand for power during peak usage periods, thus less outages.
The 2nd power meter is a good theory, but the costs to deploy it in a wide spread fasion are too large. Rewiring and adding a second meter is cost prohibative in general for most home owners. Having all your appliances manage your power consumption for you is a much better plan. Your going to have to replace your appliances at some point, but you do not have to install a whole new power system in your house.
Never mind zero day or zero hour, how long before zero minute?
the faster the broadband the faster the malware propogates.
Address the problem of malware, don't stifle bandwidth.
If the typical OS did not have swiss cheese like security this would not be an issue. Also for those of us that actually know how to maintain and use a secure system this is not an issue, and faster bandwidth is always welcome.
Shoot, and here I thought that love meant cleaning up the barf and poop your children seem to shoot out at the most inconvinent times... without your spouce saying a thing.
The key's name is "browser.cache.memory.capacity". I have it set to 16000, and FF hasn't given me trouble since.
Thanks for the tip, but I did make the setting adjustment yesterday after doing some research about it. Current usage is 70 Megs with the above mentioned setting to 16000... I'm sure it will get corrected at some point in the future. 1.0.x did the same thing, but not as bad.
So if you want to test it and don't mind a few bugs, random crashes, etc. then you might want to try it.
Indeed, I do not mind a few bugs, and crashes to test FF and prvide feedback... but I have yet to see any with daily use of the 1.5 beta 1.
The only big problem I see is memory consumption, lots of memory consumption. FF is a pig when it comes to RAM, slowing down my system unless I restart the beast about once every 24 hours or so. Other then that I pretty happy with it.
The Pilot needs access to other parts of the plane for some emergency situations. For instance how do you think they manually check that the landing gear is down when the indicator light has failed? They do not do it from the cockpit.
Now if the hijackers can figure out a why to blow the little light bulb in the cockpit for the "landing gear is locked", then they have a way to get the pilot (or more likley the co-pilot) to unlock the door to the cabin.
Bill, all of these points are valid too. I have two bonded T1s (with Verizon as the ILEC) to the net, and they both run on copper. If a pole goes down near my place, I'm screwed with T1s or Cable. I have regular issues with the lines, but Verizon is pretty responsive (at least the local tech guys I deal with).
I guess my point was more that you can call Verizon and (in theory) get them to actually respond. Yes it might take a day, but there will be a responce, and you can get trouble ticket, with real updates based on real info from them. With the cable companies... they are under very loose restrictions to provide quality of service. When you call to tell them your cable modem is down , the morons answering the phones tell you to reboot your windows PC. "What you run linux? We don't support that... click"
As for the last mile I think the cable companies are going to keep doing the same thing in the long run as the Bells, setup everything in a star config, because it is cheaper, and the service is "good enough". The Bells may run sonnet into the more populated areas, but that is because "good enough" is a much higher standard for the bells with phone and data service. Us poor saps at the end of the copper lines will not get more reliable service from the cable companies, I fear, because there is no incentive for them to spend the money to provide it (yet).
I hope at a minimum there is more competition sparked as a result of new technologies. Now if they would only market based on their reliability... I'm looking forwaard to WiMAX if anything to spark some more life into the local bandwidth offerings.
Am I the only one around here who thinks 4Mbps/512Kbps for $55 a month is a good deal?
Nope, I agree with that. It is a pretty good deal.
A T1 will still cost you $700/mo for 1544Kbps with Internet transit.
However you have to look at what you are getting here. The T1s are goverend by tarrifs and you are supposed to get a high(er) level of service, and a better responce to a reported troubles. And I generally do
I would not put up an important website, or host my buisness on a DSL/cable line if I needed to have it working 99% of the time. While my cable Internet performance is good, it still goes down frequently after storms, and in the middle of the night for "maintinence" purposes. Not to mention the horrific slowdowns on snow days when the kiddies in the neighborhood have nothing better to do then stream music, and what not.
A T1 cost more because of the infrastructure supporting it, and the level of service required by the local PUC.
In other news, the RIAA has concluded that their customers are the biggest threat to the recording industry. They are proposing legistlation that will allow all of their customers to be shot.
Qmail alone is pretty bad, but QmailToaster is a Qmail distro that makes everything easy. Check it out before you start lumping it with previous experience, at least look at the page.
I use QmailToaster, and you still have to compile everything, and make sure the dependancies work out when you update anything. This is not a trivial matter for many smallish offices.
Try Inter7.com or various other Qmail service providers.
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Thanks for the link to the sun. I don't get over to that paper much. It amazes me that willi-don is still kicking. He should have been put out to pasture years ago. But they still love him in Baltimore...
I guess I still have to ask what is wrong with the old system where they collected the paper ballots and read then in the machine. I do not think that the touch screens preventing voters from incorrectly choosing invalid combinations of candidates is a good enough reason to dump the old system. If you cannot fill out a ballot, or read directions...
Of couse if you cannot remeber how you voted the last time...
Them touch screens are staring to look better... "what you say? I just push the button that the machine tells me too? Ok"
Why should we rush to use these new fangled voting gadgets? Oh, thats right pockets needed lining. What a waste of money.
Oh, and "Go Ehrlich!" Is that politicaly correct to say here?
Try G4L first, then move to Perl later, you don't want to scare the rest of the shop off right away with $perl->["leet language"] = true;.
I guess if you can setup your house appliabces to work on a schedule and the savings was there (and it would have to be big) it would be worth it.
In the ideal world you want to encourage everyone to use the system, so have 1 price for single meter and peak dual-meter houses. Thoes people that conserve get all of the benifits of the savings. Those that do not want to conserve pay the same price all the time as those that do conserve.
This would cause a lot more conservation, and it would be a truer model for how energy is priced. If you do not want to be hassled with conserving, no problem you pay regular price all the time. If you make the effort to conserve you are rewarded.
Two point to this. First the power company controls this, thus elimnating your ability to pay more to get power when you need it.
And second, with the individual appliances doing the work you get more granular contol over your power consumption.
I think allowing your appliances to be programmed by you is a good start to the power problems we face. If this comes as a standard option in most appliances, much like the "green energy approved" appliacnes more people will start to use it. People savvy enough to take advantage of it will (in theory) save money. The Power companies will save money, and there will be less demand for power during peak usage periods, thus less outages.
The 2nd power meter is a good theory, but the costs to deploy it in a wide spread fasion are too large. Rewiring and adding a second meter is cost prohibative in general for most home owners. Having all your appliances manage your power consumption for you is a much better plan. Your going to have to replace your appliances at some point, but you do not have to install a whole new power system in your house.
the faster the broadband the faster the malware propogates.
Address the problem of malware, don't stifle bandwidth.
If the typical OS did not have swiss cheese like security this would not be an issue. Also for those of us that actually know how to maintain and use a secure system this is not an issue, and faster bandwidth is always welcome.
Shoot, and here I thought that love meant cleaning up the barf and poop your children seem to shoot out at the most inconvinent times... without your spouce saying a thing.
You must be new here...
Sorry, I couldn't help myself.
I base my opinion on my experience.
And...
I agree with your opinion.
Nor do they get much sleep...
Unless it fails, then you will be blamed.
However in my opinion, open source fails far less then Windows...
I for one welcome our new intelegent design luddite overlords...
Contractors creed: No Act too unnatural.
But I would have to raise my rate for the sendmail part. :-)
Thanks for the tip, but I did make the setting adjustment yesterday after doing some research about it. Current usage is 70 Megs with the above mentioned setting to 16000... I'm sure it will get corrected at some point in the future. 1.0.x did the same thing, but not as bad.
Its Beta... So I can live with it.
Indeed, I do not mind a few bugs, and crashes to test FF and prvide feedback... but I have yet to see any with daily use of the 1.5 beta 1.
The only big problem I see is memory consumption, lots of memory consumption. FF is a pig when it comes to RAM, slowing down my system unless I restart the beast about once every 24 hours or so. Other then that I pretty happy with it.
Now if the hijackers can figure out a why to blow the little light bulb in the cockpit for the "landing gear is locked", then they have a way to get the pilot (or more likley the co-pilot) to unlock the door to the cabin.
I guess my point was more that you can call Verizon and (in theory) get them to actually respond. Yes it might take a day, but there will be a responce, and you can get trouble ticket, with real updates based on real info from them. With the cable companies... they are under very loose restrictions to provide quality of service. When you call to tell them your cable modem is down , the morons answering the phones tell you to reboot your windows PC. "What you run linux? We don't support that... click"
As for the last mile I think the cable companies are going to keep doing the same thing in the long run as the Bells, setup everything in a star config, because it is cheaper, and the service is "good enough". The Bells may run sonnet into the more populated areas, but that is because "good enough" is a much higher standard for the bells with phone and data service. Us poor saps at the end of the copper lines will not get more reliable service from the cable companies, I fear, because there is no incentive for them to spend the money to provide it (yet).
I hope at a minimum there is more competition sparked as a result of new technologies. Now if they would only market based on their reliability... I'm looking forwaard to WiMAX if anything to spark some more life into the local bandwidth offerings.
Nope, I agree with that. It is a pretty good deal.
A T1 will still cost you $700/mo for 1544Kbps with Internet transit.
However you have to look at what you are getting here. The T1s are goverend by tarrifs and you are supposed to get a high(er) level of service, and a better responce to a reported troubles. And I generally do
I would not put up an important website, or host my buisness on a DSL/cable line if I needed to have it working 99% of the time. While my cable Internet performance is good, it still goes down frequently after storms, and in the middle of the night for "maintinence" purposes. Not to mention the horrific slowdowns on snow days when the kiddies in the neighborhood have nothing better to do then stream music, and what not.
A T1 cost more because of the infrastructure supporting it, and the level of service required by the local PUC.
Ahhh, I always wanted beach front property.
check back in 2010... by then, with some luck, the new guy might have un-borkd HP
In other news, the RIAA has concluded that their customers are the biggest threat to the recording industry. They are proposing legistlation that will allow all of their customers to be shot.
I use QmailToaster, and you still have to compile everything, and make sure the dependancies work out when you update anything. This is not a trivial matter for many smallish offices.
Try Inter7.com or various other Qmail service providers.
Do they provide prebuilt binaries?